Tag: archaeology

  • S3 E4 260 Days in Mesoamerica

    The 260 day calendar of Mesoamerica is its oldest and most enduring measurement of time.  In this episode I’ll explain how it works, what it means to modern Maya people, […]

  • S3 E3 The Mogollon

    The Mogollon are a little known ancient civilization of  the American Southwest.  But you probably know them and just don’t know you know them, you know?  And if you really […]

  • S3 E2 The Moche

    The Moche Civilization of Northern Coastal Peru

  • S3 E1 The Fanged Deity

    The Fanged Deity of ancient South America

  • S2 E5 Ma’ax Na Part 2 and Other Tales

    Part 2 of the Ma’ax Na story. My 3rd and 4th seasons of mapping adventures at the site, plus other stories about what happened in my early archaeology career in […]

  • S2 E4 How I Discovered Ma’ax Na

    In 1995, I discovered a lost ancient Maya City in the jungles of Northwestern Belize and named it Ma’ax Na. This podcast is the story of how I did it.

  • S2 E3 New World Contact Epidemics

    The moment of contact between Europe and the Americas in the 15th century brought with it a host of infectious diseases.  The result was the spread of epidemics at a […]

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